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I would have been two when this was taken. My grandparents Jim and 'Topsy' Robins had number 12 (which can be seen just behind the telegraph pole) built in the 1940s and lived there until my wonderful Gran died. I have ...Read more

A memory of Elmer in 1960 by Lesley Extence

We moved to Egham in about 1955.  My father had been born in Medlake Road in 1920.  We lived in Oak Avenue, Egham Hythe in a house built in the 1930s.  I attended Egham Hythe Infants and Primary and later Magna Carta (on both its sites - ...Read more

A memory of Egham in 1960 by Crispin Lancaster

I clearly remember arriving at 'Ellerslie' a large detached Victorian house situated in the suburb of Edgerton near Huddersfield. The house had been used as a nurses' training ...Read more

A memory of Huddersfield by Molly Brearley

Honeypot Lane was where I was born in 1954. I remember walking round this way by myself with my doll’s pram & thinking that the pregnant ladies would envy me with my baby! This seemed quite a way from my house in Brampton ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury by sally.murphy5

Does anyone remember the little sweet shop on the Tilt.  I do, and remember walking home from St Andrew's School in Cedar Road, along the little alley onto Stoke Road, across to the Fire Station and up towards the Running Mare.  The  little ...Read more

A memory of Cobham in 1960 by Christine Elmer

My brother and I were born in 1931, the only twins in the village at that time (Elwyn and Eifion Goss). Bryn Seion was always in our sight whenever we went to the shops on the square. The first stop was to the Co-op which was ...Read more

A memory of Glanaman in 1930 by Elwyn Goss

My mother left Yorkshire with me in 1945 when I was four years old. She worked for a Mrs Curzon at Arrochar house in Rothiemay as a cook and general help. I think the owners were titled people. I remember collecting ...Read more

A memory of Rothiemay Crossroads in 1945 by Lucie Nee; Roberts

This story written by Bee Snow 1928-2007 (nee Barbara Whitaker) about her childhood in Evershot, Dorset. Reared with three sisters, four brothers, four terriers and a jackdaw, I insisted by the age of five in ...Read more

A memory of Evershot in 1930 by Peter Whitaker

I remember my mother taking me to see Annie Get Your Gun about 1950/1 at the Savoy Cinema in Sale. I was ten years old and we had walked from Button Lane. I was only ten years old.

A memory of Sale by John Shaw

THE SATURDAY MORNING MATINEE Of course you remember it ... well most of us do!!! It all seems so long ago now! but it's beginning to drift up from the fog of 'times gone by'. Hot and damp and steaming gently in the heat ...Read more

A memory of Felling in 1955 by David Hinge